[PATCH] net: fec_mxc: Set error code on error exit

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 22:36:34 CEST 2025


On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM Andrew Goodbody
<andrew.goodbody at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> In fecmxc_probe if a timeout is detected when resetting the chip no
> error code is set before taking the error exit. This could lead to a
> silent failure. Instead set an error code.
>
> This issue was found by Smatch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Goodbody <andrew.goodbody at linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/fec_mxc.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c b/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
> index 54b08482b91..ccd5589318e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/fec_mxc.c
> @@ -1344,6 +1344,7 @@ static int fecmxc_probe(struct udevice *dev)
>         while (readl(&priv->eth->ecntrl) & FEC_ECNTRL_RESET) {
>                 if (get_timer(start) > (CONFIG_SYS_HZ * 5)) {
>                         printf("FEC MXC: Timeout resetting chip\n");
> +                       ret = -ENODEV;

'return -ETIMEDOUT;' would be a more appropriate error in the case of a timeout.


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